Friday evening, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio will begin with an opening ceremony that will undoubtedly be colorful and dazzling with dancing and wonderful music. There's sure to be , , , and other popular music forms, but I hope there is also a nod to classical music with something by , the best-known Brazilian composer to blend classical and native Brazilian themes, as in his .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mZSm1TfQHM
Looking back thirty two years, here's a look at a great blending of classical and popular music in the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, but given an unusual rendition with the rather strange-looking phenomenon of 84 pianists playing George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in unison. See article .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LT5F32Cis
